Maybe telling your boss to Take This Job and Shove It isn't such a great idea. After he delivered the 70's most famous resignation, Johnny Paycheck eventually was forced to file for bankruptcy. Trouble with the IRS, and this song, inevitably followed.

This song began when Mark Knopfler overheard a rant in an electronics store. Just like the video, a warehouse worker in an appliance store was complaining to a co-worker about the cushy lives of rock stars. Knopfler took down the conversation verbatim, added one of the catchiest hooks in 80's rock and roll, and a mega-hit was born.

Recorded after Sam Smith signed his first contract with a major label, Money on My Mind speaks honestly about the pressures of the music business. A beautiful song featuring a stellar vocal performance

With it's distinctive rhythmic opening of money clinking and cash registers ringing (created by splicing together sound effect recorded in Roger Water's garden shed) Pink Floyd's Money remains the most recognizable song about the root of all evil.

The lyric "There's one for you, nineteen for me" isn't artistic license - at the time George Harrison wrote this the Beatles were paying an astonishing 95% of the money they earned to the British taxman. Recorded in April of 1966, Taxman remains the most popular song about the most unpopular reality of life.